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hill-man, hillman
1. Also hillsman.
a. One who frequents the hills; spec. applied to the Scottish Covenanters (cf. Cameronian and hill-folk).
b. An inhabitant of a hill-country, a mountaineer: applied to the hill-tribes of India, etc.
c1830J. Train in Scott Old Mort. Introd., The religious sect called Hill-men, or Cameronians. 1854J. D. Hooker Himalayan Jrnls. I. v. 136 Carriers and mountaineers... If they serve a good hills-man like themselves, they will follow him with alacrity, sleep on the cold, bleak mountain. 1859Lang Wand. India 6 A sort of sedan-chair carried by four hill men. 1893Archæol. LIV. 269 The pinch of poverty often drove the bravest of the hillmen to raid the cattle of the lowlands. 1897Daily News 27 Nov. 5/7 The hillmen offered a stubborn resistance to the advance along its whole length. 1920London Mag. Apr. 187/2 This rain would hold. He knew it with a hillsman's knowledge. 1938V. McNabb Life of Our Lord iii. 42 The hills⁓man from Galilee..had to pass through the country of Samaria.
2. One of the hill-folk (b); an elf or troll.
1882Child Ballads i. vii. 90/2 A supernatural being, a demon or a hillman, seeks to entice away a mortal maid. 1884Ibid. ii. xli. 366/2 The hill-man, in several Norwegian copies, carries off the lady on horseback.
3. spec.
a. (See quot. 1851).
b. A miner, a slate quarryman [cf. Ger. bergmann].
c. A hill-climber.
1851Mayhew Lond. Labour (1861) II. 172 The labourers..paid by the foreman or forewoman of the dust-heap, commonly called hill-man or hill-woman. 1865J. T. F. Turner Slate Quarries 13 The cleavers, or hillmen, build rough walls as a partial protection from the inclemency of the weather. a1885Shairp in W. Knight Life (1888) 74 Some of our party were very good hillmen. One day five or six set out on a race from our door..to the top of Fairfield. |